How many BAT's are there?

After looking at ROTAR's thread it got me wondering: I'd always considered backflow testing to be an integral part of irrigation installation and maintenance. I know there's a few on the forum that test, and I've heard reasons why others do not test (because no one told them to), but I'm curious how many members test. By the way, testing is very lucrative if you've got a purveyor that gives a rat's ass. Turn them into the State Health Dept. if they have no "program". It's a public health issue that seems to me to be our responsibility. What do you think and do you test?

If you are certified and step on a property to do some other service work it seems to me you become liable for that backflow whether you test it or not. My advice to anybody who has asked me about that stuff is unless you plan to test and be the enforcer then stay away. Plenty of other things to get certified for that don't expose you to liability.

If you are certified and step on a property to do some other service work it seems to me you become liable for that backflow whether you test it or not.

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Nope, you simply call the purveyor and report in. Around here, most testers will put a tag on the BF indicating when it was tested. You TOUCH a backflow assembly, without concurring with the purveyor and try to do some c.s. "repair" then your ass is grass should an "incident" occur.

If they become as strict about it as they are in Indy then I say absolutely. If enforcement is lax then its a crapshoot unless you market to other irrigators who do installs. (In TX) May change or be changing. I think they are spending more time trying to figure out how to limit water usage not protect water quality.